Obamacare And The Intellect Of Man

     

Tucson Weather Today

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2014, was awarded jointly

to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

for the invention of efficient

blue light-emitting diodes

which enables bright, energy-saving white light sources

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According to a PBS News report:

The second round of enrollment under the nation’s Affordable Care Act promises to be tougher than the first. Many of those eager to get covered already did, including those with health conditions that had prevented them from getting insurance in the past.

About 30 million to 40 million people remain uninsured in the United States, according to various surveys.

Read more . . .

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Did You Know . . .?

The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

Read more . . .


HISTORICAL EVENT

On this night in 1871, fire broke out in a barn behind the Chicago cottage of Patrick O'Leary. Winds blowing off the prairie fed the flames, and the fire spread rapidly, eventually consuming a four-mile-long and two-third-mile-wide swath of Chicago. When the Great Fire was finally over two days later, nearly 300 people were dead, one hundred thousand were homeless, and Chicago's booming downtown was in ashes. Although the fire destroyed Chicago's downtown, it left most of the city's essential industrial infrastructure in place. The grain elevators and vast stockyards continued to collect the growing output of the West, process it into pork sausages or two-by-fours, and send it onward to the insatiable markets of the East.

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WORD FOR TODAY

LED [ell-ee-dee]
noun
An LED (light-emitting diode) is a two-lead semiconductor light source. It is a basic pn-junction diode, which emits light when activated.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon

(born October 8, 1970)

Matt Damon is an American actor, voice actor. His career was launched with the success of his and Ben Affleck's award-winning screenplay, Good Will Hunting (1997)

Sigourney Weaver

(born October 8, 1949)

Sigourney Weaver is an American actress. She is known especially for the lead role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. She is also well known for her roles in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, Gorillas in the Mist, Working Girl, and Avatar.

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase

(born October 8, 1943)

Chevy Chase is an American film and television actor. He was a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. Chase is well known for his portrayal of the character Clark Griswold in four National Lampoon's Vacation films, and for his roles in comedies including Foul Play, Caddyshack, Seems Like Old Times, Fletch, Spies Like Us, and ¡Three Amigos!

Stephanie Zimbalist

(born October 8, 1956)

Stephanie Zimbalist is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.

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"Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon."
--William Zusser

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